New nationwide demonstrations and violent clashes erupt in Greece! The reason, the fatal accident of 2023!
Protesters in Athens threw petrol bombs and fireworks in clashes with police on Wednesday night, following a new wave of nationwide demonstrations demanding that politicians be held accountable for a 2023 train disaster that killed 57 people.
Violence outside Greece's parliament erupted hours after opposition parties challenged the center-right government of Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis with a no-confidence motion.
Demonstrators set fire to cauldrons in Syntagma Square and riot police responded with tear gas and baton charges. There were no immediate reports of injuries or arrests.
Days earlier, a general strike and much larger protests, some of them violent, marked the second anniversary of the country's deadliest train accident.
Fifty-seven people, mostly students, died on February 28, 2023, when a passenger train collided with a freight train near the Tempe Gorge in central Greece. The crash also left dozens injured and exposed shortcomings in the country's transport infrastructure.
Relatives of the victims have called for mass protests in recent weeks, saying politicians must be held accountable for the failures that led to the crash. So far, only railway officials have been charged with any crimes, and no trial has yet been held.
The no-confidence motion led by the main opposition Socialist party and supported by three smaller left-wing parties is unlikely to threaten Mitsotakis' government, which holds 156 seats in the 300-member parliament. The vote is expected late Friday.
Presenting the motion on Wednesday, Socialist party leader Nikos Androulakis accused the government of shielding officials from responsibility for the tragedy. “Why do you remain so unrepentant, continuing on the path of insults and arrogance?” Androulakis asked lawmakers.
Mitsotakis described the censure motion as a political stunt and insisted it poses no threat to his second term, which ends in 2027.
"Parties from different perspectives have united in a common anti-government front," Mitsotakis told parliament. "It's not the truth that interests you. But you've fallen in the polls and are looking for a reason to exist."
A long-awaited report into the crash, released last week, blamed human error, aging infrastructure and major systemic failures. A separate judicial inquiry is still ongoing.
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